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Dec. 26, 1922. 1,439,842

J. V. ROUNSEFELL. Box. Fuss JAN. 28. I920,

WITNESS v INVENfOR. W /a/m 1 Poemsefell A TI'ORNEY Patented Dec. 26, 1922.

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Application filed January 28, 1920. Serial No. 854,552.

To allwhomct may concern.

Be it known that 1, JOHN V. llcLrNsnrnLL, a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have made a new and useful inventionto wit, an Tmprovement in Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, concise, and exact description of the same.

The invention relates particularly to small metal boxes useful to jewelers, diamond merchants, watch makers, and others.

Among the objects of the invention are to provide a light, cheap, compact box, having a hinged lid-and means for identifying the box and contents. Other objects and advan tages will appear as the description progresses.

- In this specification and the arm xed drawings, the invention is illustrated in the form considered to be the best, but it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to such form, because it may be embodied inother forms, and it is also to be understood that in and by the claims following the description it is desired to cover the invention in whatever form it may be embodied.

In the accompanying one sheetof drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view in cross section of the same taken on the line II-II Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on the line lII-Ill Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of the tag holding portion of the fixed top of the box.

In detail the construction illustrated in the drawings includes the body of the box, preferably composed of an integral piece of sheet metal, pressed into rectangular form having the bottom 1, the ends 2 and 3 and the sides 4 and 5 and open at the top. The top is partially closed by a fixed cover, preferably consisting of a single piece of sheet metal, properly blanked and formed to include the cover 6 having the end flange 7 bent at a right angle thereto, and folded back upon itself at 8 to form the frame 9 having an opening 10 therein. and terminating at 11 contiguous to the top of the end 2 at the box. The frame 9 has its lateral edges bent down to form the flanges 12 and 13 fitting within the box between the sides a and 5. The fixed cover is secured within the top of the box by means of the rivets 13 passing through the perforations 1a in the depending flanges 7, 12 and i3, securely firing the cover within the box at the end 2 with the edge 11 slightly above the upper rib of the box. The index card 10 is slipped beneath the frame 9 between it and the cover 10. This card 10 can be used for listing the contents of the box for identification.

The open portion 15 of the box is closed by: the hinged lid 16 extending from the edge 8 of the cover to the end 3 which is overlapped by the flange 17 on the lid. The flange 17 is a continuation of the side flanges 18 and 19, that extend back-of the edge 20 of the lid to form the hinge extensions 21 and 22 that engage the pivots 23 and 24 respectively which extend through the hinge extensions and the sides 1 and 5 of the box and the flanges 12 and 13 of the cover. The lid 16 swings on these pivots from the closed position shown in Fig. 1, to the full open position. shown in Fig. 2 at the back of the box, uncovering the opening 15 to the contents of the box. To hold the lid 16 locked in the closed position, the end 3 has the tit 25 embossed therein and extending outwardly to engage a registering socket 26 provided in the ear 27 on the flange 17. The socket 26 frictionally engages the tit to hold the lid in the locked position. The engagement may be released by the inherent resiliency of the end 3 near the top, which springs back suiiiciently to release the tit 25 from engagement when the ear 27, bent slightly outward as a-fingei' hold, is pressed upward when elevating the lid 16.

Aluminum is the preferred material for the construction of these boxes, because of its attractive appearance and the extreme lightness, which is a prime consideration when these boxes are made up to be carried in containers or cases by traveling salesmen or the transportation and display of jewels, small. articles of jewelry or the like. Tnasmuch as it is desirable to make the box of as thin gauge material as practicable, I extend the flanges 7 12 and 13 well downward into the body of the box to give added strength and rigidity to the structure.

Having described this invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A box having an open top and a cover comprising a strip of metal having one end bent down and fixed to an end of said box,

and the other eml bent back upon itself and having its sides bent down and secured to the contiguous sides of said box; and a hinged lid covering the remaining portion of the top and pivoted back of the meeting edges of the said cover and lid.

2. A be having an open top and a cover comprising a strip of metal having one end bent down and fixecl to an end of said box, and the other end bent back upon itself above the plane of the top of the box and having its sides bent down an?! secured to the contiguous sides of said box; and a lid covering the remaining portion of the top of the box and having flanges enclosing the 15 edge of the box and binge extensions pivoted to the opposite sides of the box below the top thereof.

In testimony Whereofi I have hereunto set my hand at San Francisco California, 20 this 24th day of December 1919.

JOHN V. ROUNSEFELL.

In presence of Lincoln? V. JOHNSON. 

